Summary Of The Scarlet Letter By Hester Prynne

Hester Prynne is the heroine in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn. The book is about a woman, Hester, who commits adultery who faces multiple challenges in the religious society due to the crime she has done. In the beginning of the novel we are shown that Hester is on the scaffold, she is with a child in her hand and she is coving something, the scarlet letter. We see her as bad person, due to the scarlet letter which she is given, and sometimes don’t realize that the meaning of the letter changed throughout the novel, but not only the letter, but Hester as well. As the novel progresses we see how Hester really is and how she is really not a bad person. We see the challenges that she has to face being restricted by the letter

After being presented on the scaffold, Hester is taken back to her cell with a Scarlet Letter “A” and Pearl. As the years go by Hester see that no one really cares about what she has done, so she starts to help people and try to become a better person. After about seven years we are told that Hester helps the lower class people by sewing them clothes and giving them food. We are also told that she helps the sick and nurses them back to health. This shows how her character is developed and this is one of the first times we see the “A” change its meaning, from adulteress to able, meaning she has done so much to help it is as if her sentence has almost vanished. Other than being a good person and helping the sick she is also very strong at heart. Hester is strong, after she does what she does, she does not allow that to stop her. She continues to do what she does best, sewing, and shows everyone that despite being named this person of sin, she can still lift herself to do some good. When Hester was told that she might lose Pearl it is like a switch went off in her and she became a super mom or something, she taught Pearl wat she need to know and she still managed to help people out. She showed everyone that this “A” means able and I am going to start doing stuff now. She saw that she can turn this sin into a lesson and she